Begovic says, “It was evident that there was a need to show plastic surgery in a different light and that TV also needed female-positive and female-empowering programming.” She’s been developing the show for the past five years-“back when less than 10% of all board-certified plastic surgeons were women”-and says that finding enough female doctors willing to be vulnerable enough to let viewers into not only their operating rooms but their homes and personal lives as well “was the most challenging part.” Cat Begovic, Kelly Killeen, Michelle Lee, and Suzanne Quardt make up the new ensemble, and they aren’t afraid to confront the sexism in their field head-on. Plastic surgery was always men telling women what they should look like, and women are over it.”Īfter all, women account for 92% of all cosmetic surgery procedures, but only 15% of plastic surgeons are women-a discrepancy the all-female Dr. Nazarian credits the Me Too movement with helping to make way for a show like theirs: “It was just time for women to take over women’s beauty.
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“I don’t have to look like Barbie-I just want to look normal,” says one woman who is hoping to remove her excess skin after major weight loss. For example, there are no doctor-patient clashes over just how big an implant will fit. There’s a sensitivity and emotional intelligence running throughout Skin Decision that we haven’t seen in plastic surgery shows before it.
“We’re showing the huge psychological impact that beauty procedures have and blurring the line between reconstruction and cosmetic,” says Dr. Sheila Nazarian and registered nurse Jamie Sherrill, aka Nurse Jamie, as they fix patients’ injuries and scars left behind from domestic violence, car accidents, pregnancy, and other traumas.
In July, Netflix released Skin Decision: Before and After, a docuseries that follows plastic surgeon Dr. But things are finally shifting in 2020, thanks to two groundbreaking new shows. Terry Dubrow and Paul Nassif brought us Botched.įor as long as there has been a narrative around plastic surgery on television, that narrative has been told exclusively from the point of view of male doctors-and that’s made for some highly problematic programming. Linda Li, who was recruited only after her anesthesiologist husband pointed out the complete lack of women to producers). Gary Motykie, Robert Rey, Raj Kanodia, Gary Alter, Jason Diamond, David Matlock, Robert Kotler, Steven Svehlak, Daniel Yamini-plus Dr. 90210 (a Who’s Who of the top dogs in plastics-Drs. A year later, in 2004, we got both The Swan (a downright sadistic beauty pageant, featuring Drs. Nip/Tuck, Ryan Murphy’s characteristically depraved drama about two male plastic surgeons performing a lot of boob jobs and having a lot of sex, came out in 2003 and aired for six seasons.
In 2002, Extreme Makeover-a first-of-its-kind reality show on which “ugly” people were surgically altered into conventionally attractive people-made Dr. It certainly wasn’t for lack of cultural interest. This would be a logical conclusion, given that it’s taken us 18 years since the premiere of Extreme Makeover to come out with a female-led show centered around cosmetic surgery. If you gave aliens the past two decades’ worth of plastic surgery TV shows to watch, their takeaway might be that women aren’t allowed to practice medicine in America.